person
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Mechthild
also: Mechthild
German Beguine mystic (c.1207--c.1282), author of 'The Flowing Light of the Godhead'; named among the simple loving souls who sank into God, yielding yet loved.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §470 Mechthild
Mechthild of Magdeburg (c.1207--c.1282), Beguine mystic and author of 'The Flowing Light of the Godhead'; named as one of the simple loving souls who sank, yielding yet loved, into God.